Enda Curran
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79 appearances
18 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 20 Aug
Enda Curran’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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A lot of people say this intervention by Treasury is a sticking cluster on the bigger topic, which is surging government debt.
Total public debt is over 40 trillion now.
See trajectory where public spending is going, no real appetite to either rein in spending or raise revenues through taxation by either side of the political divide.
And the end result is we have this kind of juggling act now.
It's a tactical play, a surprise maneuver coming in, using short term money to buy to buy back longer term debt to get yields come down.
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Now yields did come down, thirty year yields were down, maybe the best part of ten basis points.
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That's okay.
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But the question mark is how long can that last, given the fundamental driver behind the higher yields at the moment, is worrying about the amount of borrowing that the US government is doing.
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And we had that figure today making the point that total public debt now is
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Bloomberg News Now · JPMorgan's Treasury Warning, Harry & Meghan's UK Return, More · 20 Aug 2026
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It's a tactical play, a surprise maneuver coming in, using short term money to buy to buy back longer term debt to get yields come down.
Now yields did come down, thirty year yields were down, maybe the best part of ten basis points.
That's okay.
But the question mark is how long can that last, given the fundamental driver behind the higher yields at the moment is worrying about the amount of borrowing that the US government is doing.
And we had that figure today making the point that total public debt now is forty.
thirty odd trillion dollars and just a reminder that the US fiscal trajectory continues to head in the wrong direction.
Bloomberg News Now · China Narrows US AI Lead, UK's Greens Tout Bank Tax, More · 20 Aug 2026
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It's a tactical play, a surprise maneuver coming in, using short term money to buy to buy back longer term debt to get yields to come down.
Now yields did come down, thirty year yields were down, maybe the best part of ten basis points.
That's okay.
But the question mark is how long can that last, given the fundamental driver behind the higher yields at the moment is worrying about the amount of borrowing that the US government is doing.
And we had that figure today making the point that total public debt now is forty.
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